For next Tuesday's class, be sure to have read through the 11th section (through "The Canto of Ulysses") in Primo Levi's Survival in Auschwitz. To guide your reading, keep these questions in mind:
1. How does Levi attempt to demonstrate humanity in its totality? What appeals to the good and evil of humanity does he make? Come prepared to discuss specific examples.
2. What direct appeals does Levi make to the reader, and what effect do they have on your experience of the narrative?
3. What does the dream of Tantalus mean?
4. Referring to chapter 7, how has Auschwitz changed the prisoners' values?
5. With careful attention to chapter 8, what is the economic system of the camp?
6. What events do you find particularly striking? Come prepared to discuss at least one passage or event you found striking.
During Thursday's class, we will discuss the rest of the novel, so it might be a good idea to read ahead if you are pressed for time, but on Tuesday, we will only discuss the first eleven chapters. Please remember to Google any terms that you do not find in your glossary of Holocaust terminology.
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